Gazette Of The United States

If men contemplated the advantage and happiness that resulted from industry, we should find that the public regulations would prevent idleness, by instituting modes of employment for citizens of all ages, and descriptions. The establishment of such manufactures as can employ children, and infirm, aged people, will produce the greatest utility. It would snatch many a vicious youth from the paths of perdition, and make them useful and virtuous. Perhaps no circumstance marks so much the defective state of society in this country as to behold such numbers of inhabitants unemployed, merely for the want of suitable objects about which they can be engaged. Humanity no less than patriotism calls for legislative attention, as well as for the efforts of monied men, to bring about a reformation in this respect, and to invent and adopt methods for giving employment and bread to the idle and indigent of every possible denomination.

Frequent allusions are made to the period, when the people of the United States shall realize the importance, dignity, and security of an independent nation: The prospect only of this event has excited more respectful ideas of the union, than all the partial, temporary, regulating commercial systems of the individual States put together; and if we have magnanimity as a people, to carry into prompt execution, those acts and regulations, which will receive the fiat of our National Legislature, we shall evince that we merit the station, to which, by the favor of Heaven, we are exalted.

To inspire the people with confidence in the new government, it seems necessary that those who are destined to administer it, should discover this confidence in the first instance: This can be done in no way so effectually, as by a firm and decisive avowal of principles congenial to the spirit of the Constitution, and bringing those principles into view by enacting laws, which shall have a prompt, independent, and energetic operation.